Butte des Morts Supper Club, Butte des Mortes - Tuesday October 23, 2018

We headed southwest of Appleton to the Butte des Morts Supper Club in the town of Butte Des Morts on the north shore of Lake Butte des Morts.  Butte des Morts means “hill of the dead” in French, and is the place of ancient Indian burial grounds.  There are also legends about surprise attacks on the Fox Indians by French militia as part of a brutal war between the Fox nation and the French in the early 1700’s that left total villages decimated.  The supper club has been owned by Tim and Joan Riebock for over 10 years, and although this establishment has been a supper club for a very long time I don’t know a lot about the history.

 

We arrived around 7pm and the small bar was pretty busy.  They had a taco Tuesday special that several people at the bar were enjoying.   We sat down, ordered our drinks, brandy old fashioned and vodka toic, and reviewed the menu. There were some interesting specialty items and we decided to try them.  Paul ordered the Steak Au Povire – tenderloin encrusted with cracked black peppercorn and topped with a savory white wine and pepper cream sauce, and I ordered Chicken Piccata – lightly breaded chicken with a white wine lemon butter sauce with capers and mushrooms.  Paul had a baked potato and I went with the potato wedges.

 

After a while the waitress told us our table was ready and we went into the small dining room.  They offered a salad and soup bar and we decided to partake in the soup – cream of celery for me and beef vegetable for Paul.  Both soups were quite good, as was the salad bar.  They served two cheese spreads at the table to eat with crackers or breadsticks.

 

The Steak Au Povire was a very good cut of meat, prepared just right and was very tasty.  The Chicken Piccata was very good also and because of the soup and salad bar, I took half of it home.  My son ate it later that night and enjoyed it as well.  The potato wedges served with sour cream were good too.

   

We had an enjoyable evening at the Butte Des Morts Supper Club, which was typical of many longtime rural supper clubs which almost seem like eating in someone’s house.   Definitely worth a return visit!